With the improvements in today’s health care, society has to care for more and more elderly people. Do you feel that society will be able to cope with the increase in numbers of elderly people today and how can it be managed?

The table shows the

salaries

of secondary or high school

teachers

in Australia, Denmark,

Luxembourg

, Japan and Korea in 2009. In general, we can see that

Australian

teachers

had the lowest starting and maximum

salaries

,

while

teachers

from

Luxembourg

had the highest starting and maximum

salaries

. In Denmark,

teachers

started their work with a

salary

of 45000. They

then

spent only eight

years

to reach their maximum

salary

of 54000 and levelled off.

Similarly

,

Australian

teachers

got a starting

salary

of 28000 and spent one more year than that of the Danes to reach their maximum

salary

of 48000 which remained unchanged for the next seven

years

.

By contrast

,

teachers

from Japan, Korea and

Luxembourg

took about four times more than that of

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Danes in reaching their maximum

salaries

. Among the three, the Japanese needed to take 37

years

to reach a peak of 86000, which was around twice as much as their starting

salaries

. Similar to Korean

teachers

, who got a doubled

salary

after 34

years

of teaching.

By contrast

,

teachers

from

Luxembourg

got a starting

salary

which is almost three times as much as the

Australian

. They took 30

years

to reach their maximum

salaries

of 132000, which was treble the

salary

of the

Australian

.